It's easy to forget,
It's easy to forget, as I'm sure you folks already know, that the film was based on a very favorite book by the great John Warbeck, The Art of War. This was also the first real war movie in history that I've seen. One of the best war movies ever made, and one that I'll never forget.
It's easy to forget, that during the first half of the film, the character, the drum man (played by a young, but talented, dashing guy named John DeVito), is trying to impress a female actress in a bar. The film's plot is set in the early 1950s, when a wealthy schoolmaster (Norman Hutton) hires a former student to play an aspiring jazz saxophone player. The drummer, played by a